A collection of white metal flatware presented in a woven wicker basket with twin carry handles. The assortment comprises various patterns including Fiddle and Old English, encompassing table spoons, dessert spoons, teaspoons, dinner forks, dessert forks, and butter knives. The lot includes a specialty tea strainer featuring a pierced bowl and a decorative scrolled handle. Several pieces bear legible markings: one set of implements is impressed with separate rectangular cartouches reading EP, W, &, S, and S, likely for William Hutton & Sons; another item is marked EP, A, I, and a circular S; a further group of flatware bears the marks D, &, A within a rectangular cartouche, alongside the name GLADWIN and SHEFFIELD, and the designation A1. The items are characterised by heavy surface tarnish and oxidation consistent with age and use.
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